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"The gossip on the street, going well beyond the observable facts, has the Rafsanjanis stashing billions of dollars in bank accounts in Switzerland and Luxembourg; controlling huge swaths of waterfront in Iran's free economic zones on the Persian Gulf; and owning whole vacation resorts on the idyllic beaches of Dubai, Goa and Thailand." (Millionaire Mullahs - Forbes.com) (Author of "Millionaire Mullahs" Shot Dead )

Website for this image1.In 1996, Tunisian Minister of Justice Sadok Chaabane said that Tunisian Islamists get their funding and political support from (1) Iran (2) Saudi Arabia.

Monastir. In the 1980s, a bomb exploded in a tourist hotel in the resort city of Monastir. A British tourist was maimed.5. Habib Bourguiba, the first president of Tunisia, considered militant Islam a threat to the state.

In 1987, when Ben Ali became president, Islamists were released from jail and allowed to run in the 1989 elections.

Ennahda, or Renaissance, Tunisia's largest Islamist movement, came second to the ruling party.

They won 17% or 35% according to different sources.

Ben Ali reversed his policy.

Ghannouchi, who has been living in London.Ennahda's leader Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi was given protection by Britain..

A bomb that exploded in a tourist hotel in the resort city of Monastir severely maimed a British woman guest.

5. "Many fear that ... extremist ideas will (now) circulate..." as openly and as widely as democratic or secular ideas..." ("What role for the Islamists in the new Tunisia?") 6. Bernard Lewis helped to invent the West's new enemy, known as 'Islam'.

For the British, it was once the Jewish terrorists who were seen as being the enemy.

Suharto was toppled by the CIA because he was not giving enough contracts to the USA. Instead he was favouring Chinese-Indonesians and his family. The Shah was toppled by the CIA because he would not obey all the instructions from the CIA on oil prices and heroin. Ben Ali was toppled because be was not doing enough trade with the USA and he refused to get involved in the wars against Iraq and he criticised Israel.

Switzerland seems to be the predilect place for money laundering for all the scum of the Earth. Judeo freemasonry has a very stronghold of that country. All the corrupt politians from all over the world have secret accounts in their banks. That was some talk about disclosure a few years ago. I guess nothing happened as usual.

backward Moslem countries - yes it much easier to bring them into democracy and freedom by focussing on those living medieval existences - esp. when , ironically, the Moslems brought so much learning into Europe.

Also the defeat of Moslems in Spain led to the expulsion of the Jews. Under Islam , it seems that all 3 communities lived together relatively peacefully.